Eberhard Rodt

Eberhard Rodt (4 December 1895-28 April 1979) was a Generalleutnant in the Wehrmacht armed forces of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Biography
Eberhard Rodt was born on 4 December 1895 in Munich, Bavaria, German Empire, and he served on the Eastern Front of World War I as a cavalry lieutenant. After the war's end, he took part in the counter-revolutions in Naumburg, Munich, and Nuremburg, fighting against the communists before joining the Reichswehr military of the Weimar Republic. In 1938, he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, and he commanded a cavalry regiment during the Invasion of Poland in 1939 at the start of World War II. During the campaign in Belgium, he captured 9,000 Belgian troops in Ghent, and he was later transferred to the Eastern Front against the Soviet Union. On 10 June 1943, he was appointed commander of the 15th Panzergrenadier Division on Sicily, and he served on the Italian front, fighting the British general Beard at Tolentino in the summer of 1944. In 1944, the division moved to Lorraine in France and then to the Saarland, and it served in the Battle of the Bulge offensive. He was captured by the British Army at the war's end in May 1945, and he was discharged from the army in June 1946. He died in 1979.